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      • Partitions may also be distinguished by whether they divide national or multinational polities; whether they are external or internal; by the agents promoting, supporting and implementing them; and by the political status of the partitioned entities.
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  2. Political partitions should be carefully distinguished from secessions, de-colonizations and disengage-mentsdthough they may accompany these phenomena. Political partitions involve a fresh cut, an at least partially novel border, ripped through at least one national community’s homeland.

  3. National partitions divide relatively homogeneous homelands, e.g. Germany, Korea and Vietnam at the onset of the Cold War. More debatable examples include the partitions of Mongolia, Kurdistan and Armenia–here previous homogeneity is contested.

  4. little public discussion of the broader implications of particular cases and the problems for the international system posed by separatist nationalism.1. At least five sorts of ad hoc responses can be identified: torates by stronger states through interna-tional organizations, as at Dayton, over.

    • James D. Fearon
    • 2004
  5. hypothetical typologies of political partition are related to types and levels of conflict and to the functional requisites of an integrated political system. The fourth section treats our definition of national partition as the independent variable and lists a set of empirical propositions that can be asked in studies of partitioned nations ...

  6. Jul 26, 2017 · As a consequence, its impact on cultural and critical narrative has been diverse: partition figures both as a political and as a social rupture—the source of widespread violence and displacement—and as an ongoing source of trauma that continues to shape ethnic and national identities.

  7. ABSTRACT: This paper deals with the comparative issues of partition and secession, both as territorial issues and as problems of sovereignty, focussing on the state system. The demo-cratic principle of national self-determination is recognised by the international community

  8. Dec 4, 2007 · Contemporary separatism is based on a dubious premise: that partition can create states composed of homogeneous “ethnic” nations. Not only is the homogeneous nation‐state extremely rare, it is also difficult to maintain because the nation is a malleable social construction that changes over time.

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